PREMIER OF UKRAINE
Dismissal By Moscow MOSCOW Feb. 28 Mr Nikifor Kalchenko has been relieved of his post as Premier of the Ukraine, Tass reported tonight Mr Vladimir Shcherbitsky has been appointed as Premier. Mr Kalchenko was blamed by the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee for several failures in agriculture in the Ukraine last year Earlier this month, the Minister of Agriculture in the Georgia Republic was replaced. and the Communist Party secretary in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan was also replaced Ukraine used to be the granary of Russia in the years when the virgin lands of Kazakhstan were not available. In a speech at Kiev in January, Mr Khrushchev ouoted experts as saying that ne Ukraine could increase its erd of cows by a million every year He warned that j-icultural leaders wno l ied were enemies of the Stateland would be called to count.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29452, 2 March 1961, Page 15
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